Name that Clancy Brothers album!

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When I was a wee lad, in that magical decade known as the 1970s, my family had an album of a live performance by the Clancy Brothers (and Tommy Makem, I think). I specifically remember four songs: “Jug of Punch,” “No Nay Never” (or “Wild Rover,” or whatever it’s called), “Finnegan’s Wake,” and (the song I really want to hear again) “Weela Wallia.”

The album itself is long gone, of course, and I don’t remember the title.

I’ve looked over the Clancy Brothers’ discography at allmusic.com and can’t find an album listed that features all of those songs. More particularly, I can’t find a Clancy Brothers album that features “Weela Wallia,” and my efforts to recapture my childhood will forever remain incomplete if I can’t get a copy of the Clancy Brothers singing about infanticide.

Anyone know what album I’m thinking of? Anyone know where I can get a copy of “Weela Wallia”? I’m happy to pay for an album, of course; the rest of it would probably bring tears to me eyes again, too.

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I have quite a few of the Clancy Brothers’ albums from that era, including Live at Carnegie Hall, which features the other three songs you mention but not Weela Wallia. Sorry, but I haven’t encountered that song on any other Clancy Brothers’ album either.

Could it have been an album released in Ireland but not the US?

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It’s possible, I suppose. I’ll have to ask my mom where the album came from, although I suspect she barely remembers it.

I thought it was “Live at Carnegie Hall” myself, before I noticed that “Weela Wallia” isn’t on the album. Maybe I’m mixing up two records in my head, but I’m fairly certain that, whatever album it came from, the WW I’m familiar with was recorded by the Clancys.